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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

17,466 works

Graphite drawing of a clenched right hand with shaded fingers and faint drapery lines on a cream sheet.

The Hand of Poussin, after Ingres

Georges Seurat, 1875-77

Pen and red chalk drawing of The Last Judgment with a enthroned figure above angels, nude crowds, and architecture below.

The Last Judgment

Michael Herr, ca. 1620

Pen and gray wash drawing of a halberdier in Renaissance dress beside an unfinished scrolled coat of arms with a helmet.

Design for Stained Glass: A Halbardier by an Unfinished Coat of Arms

Hans Jakob Plepp, ca. 1570-80

Pen and wash drawing of a kneeling bearded man being crowned with garlands by a woman, with a winged figure, cherubs and a sc

Time Banished by Truth

Jean Jacques de Boissieu, n.d.

Pen and ink sketch of a bearded man with curly hair and a pipe, with loose figure studies beside him.

Portrait of Marcellin Desboutin (recto); Sketch of Head (verso)

Henry Somm, n.d.

Pen drawing with three architectural elevations of a parish church showing interior section, front facade with towers, and re

Drawing of Interior, Façade, and Rear of Church

Jacques Germain Soufflot, 18th century

Pen and watercolor caricature sheet titled Sanitorium des Airs, with airships, a central woman in a tall hat, and numbered vi

Sanitorium des Airs

Georges Tiret-Bognet, n.d.

Pen and grey wash drawing of a symmetrical ornamental panel with an armored woman, putti, and scrolling decorative framing.

Study for an Ornamental Panel

Jean Bernard Toro, n.d.

Pen and wash design drawing of an ornate architectural frame with an empty central panel, putti, and sphinxes.

Design for a title page

Jean Bernard Toro, n.d.

Watercolor of two women in tiered evening gowns, one seated on a sofa and one standing by a piano in a gilded interior.

Fashion Study: Two Women in Evening Dress

Adèle-Anaïs Toudouze, ca. 1860

Pen and ink sketch of a boy balancing a tall weed on his nose beside a crate and a hat.

Boy Balancing a Tall Weed on His Nose

Jehan-Georges Vibert, ca. 1874

Grey wash drawing of a dying saint in bed with a kneeling woman and standing figures near a stepped doorway.

The Death of Saint Hilary (recto); Sketch of an Arm (verso)

Jan van Scorel, early-mid 16th century

Engraving of a standing woman in flowing robes holding a covered jar, on a rounded mound, in fine black line.

Mary Magdalen

Master i.e., ca. 1490

Pen and brown ink drawing of the Deposition, with figures on a ladder lowering a body and mourners below beside a crucifixion

The Deposition from the Cross

Domenico Campagnola, 1537-1550

Sheet of pen and brown wash studies showing many nude male figures in seated and reclining poses.

Figure Studies

Hubert François Gravelot, 18th century

Blue crayon sketch on brown paper of a robed figure with raised arms above an elephant in a decorative panel.

Preliminary Design for the Playbill to "Le Chariot de Terre Cuite"

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1894

Carter, the Colorman

Charles Beale, ca. 1680

Hand-colored print of fashionable visitors on a stone staircase, all gazing up at the ceiling.

Visitors to the Salon Exhibition, Admiring the Ceiling (Les Amateurs de plafonds au Salon)

Philibert-Louis Debucourt, August 27, 1824

Watercolor design of an ornate altar flanked by a crowned saint and a nun, with a heavenly vision above the altar.

Altar Flanked by St. Louis and St. Theresa

Émile Charles Wattier, mid-19th century

Drawing of a man in a plumed tricorn hat and order badge in an oval frame on a pedestal inscribed Frédéric II de Prusse.

Portrait of Frederick II of Prussia, after Antoine Pesne

Johann Georg Wille, 1730-1808

Pen and ink caricature of a bearded man's head on a pedestal, with a handwritten French inscription below.

Caricatured Head of a Spaniard

Jules Worms, 1880

Pen and gray wash drawing of a vast basilica interior with coffered vaults, Corinthian columns, and small figures below.

Interior of St. Peter's Basilica

Jean François Chalgrin, 1759-61 (?)

Red textile design with large white roses, oak leaves, fern sprays and trailing vines in a repeating floral pattern.

Design for Patterned Silk

Jean François Bony, ca. 1780-1825

Green broadsheet with twelve skeleton vignettes in couples and comic scenes, with Spanish verses under each image.

The great pantheon of love

José Guadalupe Posada, ca. 1910-15 (published)

Pen and brown ink drawing of a funeral catafalque under a draped canopy, flanked by rows of seated mourners in a grand hall.

Funeral of the Grand Condé

Jean Bérain, ca. 1687

Watercolor frontispiece of garden ruins with columns, a waterfall, statues and an inscribed cartouche, by Claude Louis Châtel

Design for a Frontispiece

Claude Louis Châtelet, 1782

Grey wash architectural elevation of a wall with Corinthian columns, a statued niche, round window and putti garlands.

Elevation of a Wall

Jean Guillaume Moitte, 1776

Grey wash drawing of a neoclassical two-armed candelabrum with scrolled arms, acanthus ornament and a fluted pedestal base.

Candelabrum with Alternative Designs for the Arms

Henri Auguste, ca. 1770-1800

Oval drawing of Diana with stags, hounds, spears and hunting gear amid ornamental scrollwork.

Diana with Attributes of the Hunt

Antoine Caron, 16th century

Grey wash drawing of a bacchanal with reclining revelers, cherubs, a fountain and classical columns.

Bacchanal

Michel Dorigny, 17th century